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Does India’s rise as a major market power in a globalised world mean that it is no longer concerned with the ‘new international economic order’ that it once championed? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2008
  • 60 marks
  • India and the Global South

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India helped write the New International Economic Order (NIEO). It signed the G-77's founding declaration in 1964, hosted UNCTAD II in 1968 and helped shape the non-aligned economic agenda at Algiers in 1973. After the 1991 reforms it became a G20 economy, a lender to the IMF and a sought-after market. Its concern with the…

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  • The argument for abandonment
  • The argument for continuity
  • Reading the shift
  • The test of 2025–26
  • Conclusion
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